Nack Jicholson
DUST University
Ivy League
25
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Posted - 2013.07.18 01:30:00 -
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Big ask I know. 
The Dream:
When I played starcraft as a kid I would imagine how amazing it would be if you could fly around the entire universe fighting battles and each little vehicle and guy was controlled by a real person! I know that dream is understood here, because that's what's being built. Thanks.
MMO Reality
I don't think creativity is a desirable factor in this universe you're building, and that sucks. An MMOFPS is a pretty cool idea. You can build any character you want. There's no guarantee that that character is going to be good, and that's fine. However, what I've been told everytime I seek information about a build is that there seems to be one or two versions of that class that are actually useful in planetary conquest gameplay. Usually these folks will blast me with barrage of statistics to prove their point. If you didn't spend your incredibly (OVERLY) hard earned skillpoints to build one of the PC acceptable fits, you're not useful, you're a liability.
I was wrong about MMO's apparently, they're not about creativity at all. They're about optimizing a spreadsheet of statistics and arriving at the most mathematically exploitative permutation.
I ask you: What kind of fun is that?
How the real history of man kind has battled cookie-cutter-ism.
Innovation. Creation.
This game provides a great sandbox for tactical and team play creativity, some players and squads out there are coming up with amazing ways to play the game. No doubt. I have no beef with that. But that's it, beyond finding a new exploit in that spreadsheet of statistics, there is nothing we as players can do to change the balance of power in the universe. We rely fully on CCP to spoon feed us our building blocks.
If you want this universe to have a real war, we need the means to create new technology and change the universe ourselves. Only then can the world change in unexpected ways, all of a sudden that funky useless build you created could become the most desirable force in the verse, because something unexpected changed!
Finally
Until technology allows you to build a game like that, this very ambitious and interesting game comes extremely close, but falls short of the dream. Without real innovation and creativity, it just feels like work, and exposes itself as another very elaborate cage. I think I'll go back to the real world and real work, its less of a time sink. |